Category Archives: Neuropsychology

Loneliness Could Boost Alzheimer’s Risk

February 6, 2007 – 2:34 pm

Researchers at the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago have assessed loneliness and dementia. 
“In human beings, loneliness has been associated with impaired social skills. Thus, neural systems underlying social behavior might be less elaborated in lonely persons and, as a result, be less able to compensate for other neural systems compromised by age-related neuropathy,”
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New Imaging Compound Might ‘See’ Alzheimer’s Earlier

December 28, 2006 – 3:41 pm

Here is some more progress in the ability to detect Alzheimer’s earlier on.
“We urgently need techniques to see brain changes in the earliest stages of cognitive decline so that we can identify people at risk…”
The full article can be read here

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Exercise alone or with others protects aging brain

December 15, 2006 – 7:04 pm

Here is an interesting post over at iHealthBulletin.
Everybody knows that exercise is good for your heart, but in recent years we’ve gathered compelling evidence that exercise is also good for your brain,” says Fred Gage, PhD, of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. “We now know that exercise helps generate new brain cells, even in [...]

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Possible fingerprint of Alzheimer’s found

December 12, 2006 – 1:00 pm

Here is an interesting article on a new development in the fight against Alzheimer’s.
Scientists appear to have found a fingerprint of Alzheimer’s disease lurking in patients’ spinal fluid, a step toward a long-awaited test for the memory-robbing disease that today can be diagnosed definitively only at autopsy.
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INTERNET — Working out your brain

December 1, 2006 – 5:44 pm

Associated Press writer looks at brain work-outs on the web. Special attention is made to our www.happyneuron.com site and the article acknowledges the richness of our site compared to other online brain work-outs. It also states that mental calisthenics are good for you.
In other words, rigorous mental activity appears to be good for brain health, and, as a [...]

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Can blogging improve brain capacity?

November 7, 2006 – 7:43 am

A very interesting blog entry about whether blogging can improve brain capacity was posted on the Eide Neurolearning Blog. The post starts off with the question “Is blogging good for you?”
Why ask this question? The primary reason can be found in one of the central tenets of modern neuroscience: “The neurons that fire together, wire [...]

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